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Catterskill Falls.

  • ARTIST: Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone

  • PUBLISHER: Published by Goupil & Co. New York, Paris & London.

  • MEDIUM: Hand colored two stone lithograph.

    DATE: 1856.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image 17 7/8 x 12 1/4: (45.3 x 31 cm) plus title and margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: AKA Kaaterskill Falls. Lithd. by C. Parsons from a drawing by B. G. Stone. Printed by Endicott & Co. N. Y. <br><br> A beautifully rendered image of this iconic waterfall in the Catskill Mountains. <br><br> Kaaterskill Falls is a two-stage waterfall on Spruce Creek in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York, between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County..<br><br> Below the title is the first stanza of William Cullen Bryant's poem "Catterskill Falls": <br><br> "Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps, / From cliffs where the wood-flower clings; / All summer he moistens his verdant steeps / With the sweet light spray of the mountain springs; / And he shakes the woods on the mountain side, / When they drip with the rains of autumn-tide."

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition save for a few small repaired tears around the edges. Large margin with some very faint soiling.

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